Charts!

• Edward Tufte ...the guru of Information Design
• Data Visualization: Modern Approaches on Smashing Magazine
• flowingdata.com ..."FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization."
• A friend pointed me to this portfolio (Scroll down to "experimental".)
• This guy is getting a lot of press lately
• and of course don’t forget about indexed
• via one of the above: these look yummy
• BIG tree maps

These all came across my desk in the last week—something about attention and having attended the Tufte seminar Monday—and I thought I would catalog them here and share…

Video via @stephenanderson

Scott Brown on Why Hollywood Needs a New Model for Storytelling

I have a ton of backlogged stuff to put on this blog, but this one is quick and easy, and if you read this article without irony, it could be the "about" page for this blog.

Brothers and sisters, we are gathered here today to mourn the death of Story. As you may have heard, it's kaput—or, at the very least, terminally ill, wracked by videogames, wikis, recaps, talkbacks, YouTube, ADD, and the rise of a multiplatform, multipolar, mashup-media culture. Hollywood, vendor of Story in its most denatured form, is most at risk: The film industry is slowly but steadily being forced to part with quaint artifacts like the "hero's journey," Joseph Campbell's so-called Monomyth. (Which is just so ... well ... mono.)

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